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The upcoming high-end GeForce GTX 780 will likely retail for around 500 in the UK when it launches next month. The new graphics card is based on Nvidia’s premium Titan GPU, which is currently available for between 800-1,000. It won’t match the Titan’s specs, however, leaving the mammoth graphics powerhouse …
Read More »Now Shadow of the Eternals launches a Kickstarter
Consumers now have two ways to help fund the ‘spiritual successor’ to cult GameCube title Eternal Darkness. The controversial project went live with its own crowdfunding platform last week. It was subsequently revealed that Precursor Studios’ T&Cs allowed them to spend all ‘donations’ on whatever they liked with no legal …
Read More »VIDEO: PlayStation 4 hardware revealed in (fake) video
For a brief, brief moment this was the most exciting thing we’d seen all year. And even after Sony confirmed to Kotaku that it’s a fake, this PlayStation 4 reveal video is a hint of the excitement that awaits at E3 next month. The 44-second video is certainly slick but …
Read More »Take-Two wants to be "the most efficient company in the business"
Increased costs and diminishing returns – for many that was the story of this generation. And it’s not something that Take-Two wants to repeat. Chairman and CEO Strauss Zelnick has told investors that he wants his publisher to be the most efficient in the business as the industry prepares to …
Read More »Take-Two reduces losses; Max Payne ships 4m; BioShock ships 3.7m
Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two has reported a drop in losses for the year ending March 2013. Total net losses for the period reached $31.2m, significantly down on last year’s $107.7m loss. Revenues climbed from $825.8m in 2012 to $1.21bn. For the fourth quarter revenues doubled from $148.1m to $300m. …
Read More »GungHo’s Puzzle & Dragons makes $3.76m per day
Japanese smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons is making some serious cash for owner GungHo. Serkantoto.com reports that the iOS and Android game made an eye-watering $133m in April alone, according to GungHo president Kazuki Morishita. That equates to a staggering $3.76m per day. GungHo’s overall sales reached 12bn ($199m) in …
Read More »Diablo III auction house fixed, illicit profits heading to charity
Blizzard is to hand over the profits generated from a recent bug in the Diablo III Auction house to charity. The popular PC dungeon crawler allows players to trade in-game items for real-world cash. However, a recent patch introduced an exploit that allowed users to multiply their cash reserves. The …
Read More »Ubisoft worked with Kaspersky Lab to make Watch Dogs’ hacking more believable
Futuristic open-world action title Watch Dogs has been handed a touch of extra realism thanks to Kaspersky Lab. The anti-virus firm has apparently been working with Ubisoft to ensure that the hacking – a gameplay mechanic central to the title – works in a believable fashion. Players will in the …
Read More »SyFy commissions Defiance for second series
Cross-media games and TV project Defiance will return for a second series. TV channel SyFy has already put pen to paper after the strong start enjoyed by the ongoing first series which broke records upon its recent debut. The second series will begin production in August 2014. "Bringing the rich …
Read More »The Sun says 3DS is the best console ever
Nintendo’s 3DS has grown to become the best console ever released, according to UK national The Sun. In the space of a few months, the Wii U’s little brother, the handheld 3DS, has become my favourite gaming console,” a story posted online today reads. I don’t mean favourite handheld console, …
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